HL keeps crashing when i try and start it dammit.
i tryed a roleback, didnt work. at the moment i am trying to replace my cstrike folder with my backup, it means that im not going to have any of the new maps or anything ffs. i just hope this works.
im actually really up shit creak.
i get this msg when i start up. its a dos message.
Pri master Hard Disk: S.M.A.R.T. Status BAD, backup and replace.
HELP. ive been trying to backup data, but it wont let me right anythink to CD. which is a reall problem as it has all the photos of the new puppy on it, and my mum will kill me.
I'm guessing you have a Maxtor hard drive?
I which case I fear it is about to die a nasty death. Get a new one and try to dump as much across before it goes belly up for good.
Try going here for a utility that will check for real
http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads...ds/powermax.htm (http://www.maxtor.com/en/support/downloads/powermax.htm)
Back up what you can, if you can before you use it though.
The smart feature is simply reporting that there are big errors on your hard drive. It might last a day or a month but I'm fairly certain it's on it's way out.
That being said you might want to get some other opinions check the web or google to make sure I'm not talking rubbish.
Sorry mate
:cry:
How big is your drive? I have a spare 13 Gb drive I can send if it can take the data from your old drive (use drive image or drive copy to move data across)
will a complete format help. this i have had 2 format at both of the last 2 lans i have been 2
no, a format will not help. If your drive's smart is coming back with a failure, replace, then the problem is terminal. Get that data off there quick and replace asap. I'd even go so far as to suggest you don't use the computer (or unplug that HDD) until you get a new one.
Then install the new drive, stick the os onto that and then plug the failing one as a slave and drag all of those files across.
Its not worth mirroring as you don't know whats being corrupted and you may end up having a bad install of your os being mirrored to your new drive. A re-install is the only way to go.
Poor old Sheepy's having a bit of a horrible anus.......er annus horribilis :cry: :cry: :cry:
i have no idea what nutrons on.
im having a sh!t time recently.
job quit,
car crashed,
HD bust.
but im going on holiday on the 15th of feb.
a week of fishing, drinking and waloimg in wales.
Quotei have no idea what nutrons on.
im having a sh!t time recently.
....that'll be the annus horriblis again :? And after a month like Sheepeh's had, you need a new family motto, something like this one:
Carpe mundus scidae......... 8O
TL. 8)
I'm posting this to say that I am nearly a mighty cheese event.
And also that I am moving data off the HD now and it should be with you by Weekend Sheepy
There only 8 posts to go :-)
I would have sent as PM but this gives an extra post ;-)
lol
a men bruva. i wanna b a problem child. only a few more hundred posts 2 go.
TL what that meen, i neva done latin?
it translates roughly as:
There is a slippy carp underneath us
No idea what TL's motto means but annus horribilis means horrible year. It's a quote from the queen no less, when she was describing a year in which her children were being particularly crap and moronic (that's inbreeding for ya).
As a small note of consolation a lot of hard drive/bios setups either don't use SMART or don't have it switched on. Those people don't get the warning you got....their hard drive just dies and they loose everything with no chance of a backup.
So there is a very small consolation :?
I've been thinking. (Yes, it did hurt... lots) and are you sure you havn't been struck by lightning? Or perhaps you upset a fairground fortune teller?
Still look on the bright side, bad luck comes in threes and by your list...
job quit,
car crashed,
HD bust.
that makes three! So good times ahead! Yay!! :D
o 4th one,
dropped collage. cant b 'rsed with it ne more.
well, that can be a good thing if you want to be a lazy bum! :D
just look at me, no formal qualifications and I'm an it manager :lol:
btw, i was thinking of this anyway, but the final nail in the coffin was that i missed an exam coz of the trafic on the A14, even tho i left the house 30mins early on that day we spent 2 hours sitting in the traffic not going ne where.